You Can Now Find Steve Nash on the Soccer Field

It looks like Steve Nash is trying to take his athletic talents to a different setting: The New York Daily Newsreports that the future NBA Hall of Famer has been training with the National Premier Soccer League's New York Cosmos B Team, and might play in his first game today. (The Cosmos play the Rhode Island Reds at 4 p.m. ET, FYI.) Nash, a lifelong soccer fanatic, retired from the NBA earlier this year, after nearly 20 years of running the court for the Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, and Dallas Mavericks. He's now officially a player on this roster.

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It's not entirely surprising: In his down time, the Canadian athlete spends a lot of time training with pro soccer teams—not to mention every year he holds a celebrity-charity game called Showdown. His brother and dad played the sport professionally, too, and Nash has been instrumental in helping to bring pro soccer to Canada (he's a part-owner of the Vancouver Whitecaps). In an interview with Esquire, about a decade ago, Nash made his love for the sport very clear. "I watch much more soccer than basketball," he said, adding that it's his "favorite sport." There was a chance he might have been wearing indoor-soccer shoes when he said this (probably), and went on to confess that he plays pickup soccer every night, during the summer. Makes sense. Hopefully, this endeavor will turn out better than the whole Michael Jordan-does-baseball-for-a-bit thing.